Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Scouting the Argentine Primera Division

Key Soccerlytics Insights:
  • The APV (average player value) of the top 25 players aged 23 years old or younger in the Argentine Primera League is €1.7M
    • Of the 25 players, 6 play for River Plate, the most of any one club in Argentina
    • Racing Club's Ricardo Centurion and San Lorenzo's Hector Villalba have the 2 highest TMVs (transfer market values) at €3.7M and €3.6M respectively
    • 3 out of the 25 players are non-Argentine: River Plate's Eder Balanta (Colombian centre back), Tigre's Jose Correa (Colombian striker) and Paraguay's Jorge Rojas (Paraguayan winger)
  • The APV of the top 16 players aged 19 years old or younger in the Argentine Primera League is €0.3M
    • Of the 16 players, 4 play for River Plate, the most of any one club in Argentina
    • River Plate's Giovanni Simeone and Velez Sarsfield's Facundo Cardozo have the 2 highest TMVs at €2M and €0.75M respectively
      • Giovanni Simeone (son of Atletico Madrid Coach and former Argentine International Diego Simeone) is the only U19 player also ranked among the 25 most highly valued U23 players
    • 8 out of the 16 players aged 19 or younger are currently participating in the 2015 South American Youth Football Championships (U-20)
      • Simeone, Cardozo, Monteseirin,Rolon, Martinez, Batalla, Contreras and Devecchi are all currently part of the Argentina Squad in Uruguay
Top 25 Argentine Primera League players aged 23 or younger

Top 16 Argentine Primera League players aged 19 or younger

Argentine Primera Division Average Player Value (€0.46M) Index as of 1/14/2015 (Market Value data from Transfermarkt.com)




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